In another sign that electric car startups are struggling to gain traction, Coda Automotive has laid off 15% of its staff.

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Among them: outfits like privately owned Young Electric Sign Co. (the oldest and largest producer of electric signs in Las Vegas) of Salt Lake City, Utah and Magink Display Technologies of Mevasseret Zion, Israel, whose boards made a splash at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Among them: outfits like privately owned Young Electric Sign Co. (the oldest and largest producer of electric signs in Las Vegas) of Salt Lake City, Utah and Magink Display Technologies (other-otc: DTEK.PK - news - people ) of Mevasseret Zion, Israel, whose boards made a splash at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Conrad cites the recent news of Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs buying power plants as a sign that the smart money believes the electric generation business is still undervalued.

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And he had a deal with the electric company that they never turned the sign off.

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The telltale sign of trouble at reactor No. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said, was that pressure had dropped in the "suppression pool" the part of the reactor that converts steam to water at the bottom of the container.

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